GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 7870

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking400not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.90no data
Power efficiency4.75no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnAD104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 March 2012 (12 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12807424
Core clock speed1000 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate80.00313.2
Floating-point processing power2.56 TFLOPS20.04 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs80232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2012 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 4080 Max-Q has an age advantage of 10 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 191.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7870 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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